Thanks to the following people who helped out with the new site:

Ben Weeks who drew me the totally wicked turntable illustration.
Abe for the intercom photo and CD cover photography.
Princess for the promo photos and countless amounts of feedback and advice.
Milo , Mini Nuke and Deep for editorial and design feedback.
Kalman who assisted with illustrations 'n graphic ideas.
Shazbot for sorting me out with some mirror hosting when I needed it!
Arctic Boy for his AMX photos.
Google Image Search for the rest.
God for blessings big and small.

Much thanks!

Friends of Shagz

• My Brilliant Beast - Toronto-based electronic outfit who I have had the joy of working and playing with for the past few years
• Travino - Formerly of Big Beat/D'nB duo Space Ace, Travino makes unfashionable and very excellent blunted breaks 'n trip hop
• DJ Steptone - Master turntablist and owner of the Off Centre DJ School
• Methodology - Toronto urban funk/ r'nb/soul band. Burn the Floor indeed!
•  
• Ornery Boy - an online comic by Mike Lalonde
• Sick on Sin - Newly launched web store of scarey/cute goodies and fashion from Mike and Jen
• Broomfiller - Melodic Alt-Punk Rockers, good stuff
• Beats.to - The vernable Toronto internet radio station is back and relaunched with a new look and feel! Broadcasts are suppose to resume in the future, but in the meantime check out their library of ace dj mixes by some of Toronto's finest.
• Infinite Kung Fu - home to one of my favourite home grown comics by Kagan McLeod
• Canadian Music Artists - A co-op of sorts for Canadian electronic musicians, including tutorials and free samples and loops, run by Dj Cloudz
•  
• Vicken.ca - Blog by me bud, Vicken
  GeoffHunt.ca - Jokes, Poker, Lego and Simpsons
• threespleens - Blog by Craiggo, who's over in Taiwan right now
• Library Notes/Past is Prologue - My Dad writes each week in the Tillsonburg News about various and sundry items of interest (the links seems to change each week, look for the column by "Matt Scholtz")
• St. Jerome's HS Reunion - Site I built for my Dad recently, to help him contact Alumni of St. Jerome's High School in Kitchener, ON, from the Class of '64. Do you know someone who went to St. Jerome's? Perhaps a relative? Get them to check out the site and get in contact with the organizers to help them track everybody down.

Regular Visits

• Play De Record - the original and certainly longest running record store in Toronto for discerning djs (CAN)
• 2 the Beat - Recent Toronto addition; great selection of breaks, techno and house (CAN)
• Tunes - my favourite record store on the whole planet; amazing buyers, I don't know where they get these guys, but they're good! (UK)
• HTFR - another record store, lots of exclusive bootlegs (UK)
• Recordstore - another great online record store (UK)
• Juno - yet another great online record store, some say the best, although I've just been using them recently (UK)
• Discogs - fantastic DJ community site
•  
• Penny Arcade - great online comic, one of the originators
• PVP - another great online comic, also a founder of the medium
• FBorFW - one of my fave comic strips of all time
• Scarey Go Round - a cheeky british comic strip with paranormal activities, secret agents, small town politics and tea
• The Norm - consistently funny, sort've a grown-up Calvin 'n Hobbes that focuses on relationships
• Toothpaste for Dinner - weird, poorly drawn, hilarious
• Perry Bible Fellowship - The edgier, less-family friendly, rebelious younger brother of the Far Side
• The Zefrank Show - finally, the internet is good for *something*. Brilliant, scategorial, sometimes satiristic, sometimes just strange internet show.
•  
• Red Hot Pawn - online chess
• Board Game Geek - THE community site for board game players and collectors
• Tribe of Judah - Christian gaming clan
• We Funk Radio - Best hip hop/funk/rare groove radio show I have ever heard. Get on the good foot!
• Boing Boing - time waster supreme
• Joystiq - handy bite sized video game news
• Lost Garden - ludology (game design) blog